New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-02
INVITING THE FATAL SHOTS
HE OPENED HIS COAT TO THE PISTOL.

| ONE FRIEND KILLS ANOTHER AFTER DRUNKHS
QUARREL
Thomas Horn. who lives at Morris-ave. and One.
ndred-and-cignty- -frst-st.. began the new yeas
badly by shooting his nelghbor, Patrick Dolxn,
dead, yesterday afternoon.
Both men are laborers who have been WORKING
together ON Shaft No. % of the new Aqueduct for
some time and had become fast friends. They set
out to celebrate the day early making the round Of
the barrooms In the neighborhood, aud by D. m.
were both under the influence Of liquor. In Schu-
macher's liquor store, in Morris-ave between One
hundred-and-eighty-fr and One.hundred-a and.
eghty-secOnd sts., Horn, who is quarrelsome when
intoxicated, got into quarrel with Michael &C.
Woods on tho subject Of mining. Horn drew
revolver from his pocket and pointing il at Woods
threatened t. shoot him. Edward Ternan. Thomas
A. Murphy and J. w. Evans. bystanders, trea to
separate the men but without much success.
Dolan threw himself between the combatants aud
partly by strength, party by persuasion succeeded
in getting Horn out Of the place.
Horn resented the interference Of his friend and
when Dolan asked him why he wanted to shoot
Woods. he replied: Blank you I'll shoot you, too,
If you fool with me-"
Shoot ne then il you want to-" said Do!an In
tipsy confidence, throwing open his coat with both
hands and presenting his breast for the shot.
"TaSe that then" shouted Horn with Gu rses a
he fired two shots in rapid succession from his
revolver. Both bullets took fatal effect on his un-
fortunate friend He staggered O few yards from
the spot and fell to the sidewalk without utterina
a word.
The murderer tnrned and fed with the pistol in
his hand aud no one moested him. Officers Kane
and iiallohan arrested him an hOar afterward in
the house of his sister. Mrs. Quinn, with whom he
boards. lie offered no RESISTANCE and made kno
statement.
he was in tact too drunk TO do either. He was
locked up in the Thrty-fourth Precinct Police
Station.
Dolan was picked up n few moments after he fell
and was borne in an unconscious state TO the same
police station. lie never recovered scIousness
and led in about half an hour. The revolver was
OF thir,y-eight calibre, and the bullets had both
penetrated tho abdomen, one in front and one from
the right side. The body lay IN the police station
all night awaiting the action Of the coroner.
The murdered m an was an Irishman, Was un-
married aud had no relatives in the neighborbood
tie Vas thirty-two years old, short ani thick yet.
with coarse features and cOarser clothing. Detective
Brady, attached to the Tbiriy-fourtl Precinct,
knew him to be an innOiensve man, hard working
but given to spending his wages for drink.
Horn, the murderer, is also unmarried, and has
lived III tho neghborhood long tIue with bis
sister, He is about the same age as his victim and
of an unprepOssessinx appearance. Both men were
quiet enough, however, when sober. anI have
ne 'er come under the notice of the police for any
misdcmeanor SO tar rs known. Horn had sobered
mp sufficiently last night when q IKiBUNt reporter
called at the police station to realize the danger in
which his drunken freak had paced him; but de-
case. Edward TIernan. Thomas A. Murphy. j. w.
Evans> and Michael C. Woods. witnesses of the
atfray were arrested and locked up also. Th-y say
that they heard three shots ired The revolver
which was found on Horn when he was arrested,
contained six cartridges, of which only two had
been discharged. Dol ans boiy and the ground
from which the third shot conld have been fired.
Nothing of the kind could be found and the police
say he was not the kind of a man to carry oGe